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2021
Jan
31
 
 
It’s not very often that this 1925 silent movie by Sergei Eisenstein is televised. That’s putting it mildly. But as tonight’s centerpiece offering in TCM’s Silent Movie Sundays, Battleship Potemkin is especially resonant, and worth seeking out. It’s set mostly aboard a battleship at the start of the Russian Revolution of 1905, and ends with a street demonstration that turns into a violent, bloody clash with police on the Odessa steps. It’s such a fam
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
As The Long Song begins Sunday, we're clearly in a distant time and place...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
The outstanding cop series Homicide: Life on the Street premiered on this day in 1993, immediately after Super Bowl XXVII...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
30
 
 
On this day in 1977, ABC turned teenage detectives Frank and Joe Hardy, lead characters of The Hardy Boys mystery book series, into TV stars...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
30
 
 
The 33rd cycle of The Amazing Race was good to go, and go it did. The latest running of the 10-time Emmy Award-winning around-the-world challenge burst out of the starting gate as scheduled last February...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
30
 
 
In 1968, ABC made a brazen attempt to appeal to young viewers – as part of the first overt campaign by a broadcast network to woo that particular demographic – by presenting a new type of cop show. It was one that had a trio of young characters enlisted by Los Angeles police to work undercover… but only with the understanding that they were targeting the evil adults at the top of various criminal enterprises, not people their own age. That wiggle room allowed the three heroes
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
30
 
 
Meredith Willson’s classic Broadway music came to the big screen in 1962, immortalizing the pitch-perfect con-man role of Harold Hill as embodied by Robert Preston. Add Shirley Jones as Marian the Librarian, and little Ron Howard as lisping Winthrop, and there’s plenty of justification to watch this week’s TCM entry in “The Essentials” – no matter how many times you’ve seen it before. There’s so much to point out here. The “one Grecian urn, t
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
30
 
 
The first new Saturday Night Live of 2021 features a first-time host (John Krasinski) and a first-time musical guest (Machine Gun Kelly). Is it too much to hope for to wish for a return appearance by Brad Pitt as Dr. Anthony Fauci, now that Fauci is out of the Trump doghouse and into the Biden White House?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
29
 
 
His last edition of CNN's Larry King Live provided ready-made news in itself...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
29
 
 
Disney+ provided critics only the first three episodes of WandaVision in advance – and while they were intriguing and imaginative, they also were very much like place-setters. The sitcom format of those opening episodes was fine, taking us through TV “worlds” of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, but I wondered when writing my review where WandaVision intended to go from there. It could, I imagined, be the first TV series I can recall to shift in midstream from sit